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What does it mean to build a movement dedicated to resisting and challenging the Satanic forces of our own times?

Postponed from last week due to some extreme weather, we will be joined by two social activist friends of St. James, KD Kidder and Lee Stewart. KD will share with us a slide show and stories from her participation in the Great Peace March for Nuclear Disarmament from Los Angeles to Washington DC in 1986, representing Loudoun Citizens for Nuclear Disarmament, and Lee will share with us his experience participating in the Great March for Climate Action just last year.

Adult Education for the 2014-2015 session will focus on the conflict in Israel/Palestine. This topic is expected to be emotional and to elicit a variety of responses. Our study will be a safe space. Our focus will be on open-hearted listening to one another, and understanding what causes us to view the framing of a controversial issue as biased or balanced. These are concerns that transcend events in Israel/Palestine.

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I must confess that I am committed to a liturgical tradition of reading regularly designated portions of the scriptures from Sunday to Sunday. It’s a reminder that, as so-called Christians, we are, after all, a Jewish sect. So reading the scriptures in a methodical way is like unrolling the scrolls, and we’re always reminded of the unrolling of the scroll in Nazareth when Jesus was invited to be the reader. And this is what he read..